Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 2
But Jurgen was in the temple of God, and while the darkness of night reigned outside, a light arose in his soul that was never to depart from it; the heavy weight that pressed on his brain burst asunder.
Who acts: Jurgen, God, light, heavy weight, brain · What happens: be, reign, arise, not be, press, burst · To what, where: temple, darkness, soul, asunder
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, God, light, heavy weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 temple | cc |
| 2 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 temple | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reigned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reigned | cc |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 reigned | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 darkness | det |
| 13 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reigned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 darkness | nmod |
| 16 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 God | acl:relcl |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 16 reigned | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arose | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arose | nsubj |
| 21 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reigned | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 soul | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 soul | nmod:poss |
| 24 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arose | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 depart | obj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 depart | cop |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 depart | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 depart | mark |
| 29 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 soul | acl:relcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 depart | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 weight | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 weight | det |
| 34 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 weight | amod |
| 35 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 pressed | nsubj |
| 37 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 weight | acl:relcl |
| 38 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 41 burst | mark |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 brain | nmod:poss |
| 40 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 burst | nsubj |
| 41 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 pressed | advcl |
| 42 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 burst | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 temple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | the temple | of God | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reign | participle · passive | God not said here | the darkness of night | outside property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | arise | past | a light | light's soul | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | a light not said here | darkness | depart property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | press | past | the heavy weight | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | burst | past | light's brain | asunder | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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